Parts for Sears Craftsman 316.790111 18-inch Convertible Brushwacker
I'm seeking a kit of repair/maintenance/rebuild parts, mainly for the carburetor of a non-running Sears Craftsman 316.790111 18-inch Convertible Brushwacker (31cc straight-shaft string trimmer + extra brush-cutting disc-blade).
Yesterday, in a forgottten corner of my cluttered garage, I came across the long-missing Craftsman(/Ryobi?) powerhead and today I'm starting over to "research", find and order another carburetor rebuild parts for it (and fuel line, primer bulb, etc.) to, hopefully, get it running again. Having a spare is always nice.
It died several years ago, likely due to using ordinary ethanol-laced gas, despite the added Stabil fuel treatment I've always added to the storage cans of fuel (or 2-cycle mix) for outdoor power equipment, and I had intended to get it going again.
Back in 2013, per my Amazon order history, I had "researched" and bought this apparently-still-available "kit" on Amazon to do it:
tinyurl[dot-com]/ymyt8akp
However, I didn't get around to trying the repair before my wife threw away the shipping envelope (to her it looked like any other letter-size envelope of junk mail cluttering up the house). Eventually I bought an Echo trimmer and transferred the Craftsman's bigger/heavier-duty straight-shaft attachment to it. (BTW, I think that's when I started consistently buying/using non-ethanol gasoline, continuing with the added Stabil, of course. So far the Echo engine has been super-reliable, starting right up every season -- actually, ALL my engines, come to think about it.)
I'm not finding that specific model listed here on the parts-lookup, and there's not much offered on this site that I've found as listed under Craftsman Carburetors and Parts, 2-cycle. Today I'm questioning whether that Amazon kit is correct as there doesn't seem to be a model number match in the description (as maybe there used to exist in 2013?) -- I can't remember the "researched" reason I had selected it in the first place, and am not finding much via Google.
It seems to be very similar to (or possibly the same as?) one of these -- Ryobi 780/790/890, which are straight-shaft and include the accessory disc-blade -- whatever their model differences. If I could identify the exact match of Craftsman-to-Ryobi model number, perhaps I can find more parts.
Any suggestions? -- Thanks!
post edited by HMarx - 2021/04/27 14:17:20